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Police plan to use of robots and artificial intelligence by 2020

Blog note:
Great… if I live in the Middle East, I can now expect judgement from an artificial,
man-made drone with a fancy algorithm making decisions about me? Lovely
(sarcasm). Everyone who wants to see this come to their neighborhoods, raise
their hands! I thought so, I don’t see too many hands raised around the world.
In all honesty, I do have to say that I don’t want to be around when this idea
becomes commonplace around the world and it somehow ‘goes bad’ by the hand,
proclamation and decree of some idiotic, despotic, evil, world leader.

Those of you
who follow my blog, and have been paying attention, will undoubtedly catch the
fact that this will supposedly be ‘unleashed’ in 2020. How many other prophetic
events, actions, planned programs and related activities are scheduled to occur
and be rolled out in 2020? Not in 2018, not in 2019, not in 2021. Who can
connect the dots or the prophetic dominoes? End of note.

Police plan to use of robots and
artificial intelligence by 2020

Police are
exploring the use of robots to perform basic policing functions

Technology. Gulf Business.

Dubai Police
is reportedly planning to use robots and artificial intelligence in
its policing of the city by 2020. Local publication Emirates
24/7 cited Dubai Police Smart Department general director Colonel Khalid
Razooqi as saying robots could do the work of a police officer on the ground in
some situations. “We are working on a similar project and it will be ready by Expo
2020,” he was quoted as saying.

This follows
testing of a robot during the Gitex Technology Week event to gain user
feedback. “The project we are working on will involve robots interacting with people
and performing some responsibilities that of a police officer,” Razooqi
said, according to the publication. According to the official, the project will
take place in two phases with the first focused on manufacturing and the second on
artificial intelligence. Dubai Police is in the final stages of
identifying a company for the manufacturing, he said, and is also developing
AI in coordination with American technology giant IBM’s Watson unit and Google.

He said
robots could answer questions and connect people to call centre through its
interface. “We’re trying to improve the artificial intelligence and its camera
and other equipment so that it can spot people from 10 metres or 20m away and
approach them and greet them.”